Hacker News on 2 August 2007

• Please Build Me Something Useful: A Letter To Web 2.0 Developers
• In Defense Of Stuff
• What's the best advice you actually use?
• Is it hot or not? Ranking of user modded content.
• The Pirate Bay Making $9 Million Per Year
• An under-the-hood look at Backpack
• Erlang vs. Stackless python: a first benchmark
• Yelp API Released
• Coders at Work
• Why investors want protective provisions